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These are my favorites… I am crazy with them

1) Simit. Ring-shaped bread covered with sesame seeds….

2) Green Olives…

3) my hands and my mouth were almost painted with them today black mulberry!

4) This is a wonderful traditonal cookies coming from Aegean region, it is cookie with mastic

5) Red kidney beans…

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On my walking way today…

1) Afternoon at Baghdad Street…

2) They are crazy on the pavement…

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…. and you may add this too, and nia touched.

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I remembered this beautiful song tonight….

1) When I was a little girl, I wanted to have a donkey, like a cat Yes, still I love them… But of course it is not easy to explain to a little girl that donkey couldn’t live at home. This was the photograph of this moment. This man was talking to me about this… Because I was crying behind a donkey…. I think we were in a tour around the city… probably a village…

But I want to share something too about donkeys… A few years ago, maybe more than five or eight years ago, we were at the Mount Ida in the Aegean Sea coast. And there is a lovely village at there. We always visit some of our friends who live in this village. Anyway, there is a wonderful old lady, she has a nice house looking from the hills to the sea… amazing view. But she never sits at home, her home is mountain… and she always walks to the mountain and stays there all day long with her donkey and cows… And she picks up some herbals in the forest…. Like sage leaves, or mountain thymes etc. She really loves me as her daughter and I love her too… And she knows how much I love donkeys… One day, she brought to in front of her house for me, I loved this lovely donkey so much… but I noticed that there were so many little bites on its body, insects,bugs, beetles should bite him… some of them were bleeding too. What did I make? Can you guess? I don’t know but it was funny what I did, everybody laughed to me in the village. Because with cotton and tincture of iodine (I hope I am not making mistake in translation) I tried to dress all these bites… Donkey didn’t seem unhappy… But this old lady stopped me… Nia you can’t stop these happenings because tomorrow will be same with all these flying creatures… This is natural… I felt so shy, and so sad too… still I was thinking donkeys like cats…

2) What am I thinking in this photograph I don’t remember… Time, many ten years ago

3) This is the last day of high school… and the graduation party! I am on the left…

4) In Munchen… with my Dad! He took this picture…

5) Between Prague and Bruno, a small town with a castle… I wanted to visit one of castles in there. And Dr.Novak on the road to Bruno wanted me to visit this castle but it was closed… and I was so sad… and He took our pictures, me and my Dad. It was Czechoslovakia on those years… and it was a business travel for my Dad, he took me with him too. It was my first travel to Europe.

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It was a sunny day when I woke up this morning. And I decided to go to my hair dresser because my white hair seems again!!!! Offffffffff… I wasn’t the one who visits her hair dresser every month. Once in a year or two… It was all. But when I started to paint my hair yes, every month I have to go. Actually I don’t like to feel this, I mean “I have to go” feeling… This is not for me… But yes, at the end I obey…

But this morning it was strange, when I decided to go the weather changed, clouds covered the sky and the rain seemed to be here soon… And I gave up. But after half an hour there was sun again… And I decided again to go…

My camera was taking rest on On my desk… I didn’t take it with me.

There was a windy weather… so why rain clouds can’t decide where to rain

I walked down the street… On my walking way, I saw a lovely Mr. Snail, he was out from his home and was walking on the wall… Ah, nia! without camera you should write this now on your mind. This is ONE.

Then, when I reached to the square I saw a man, he was talking Mrs.Cat…. The man wanted to feed her, but Mrs. Cat, maybe she wasn’t hungry or maybe she didn’t like the food… Didn’t interest with the food. And the man really was talking to her, was trying to convince to eat them… Ah, nia! without camere you should write this now on your mind. This is TWO.

I  took a Dolmuş*… There was an old lady with a big bouquet flowers in her arms… Oh my God, how smelling so nice… you can almost feel yourself in flower gardens… But when we try to give our money to the driver, all changes fell down… flowers, coins, we all mixed. Everybody wanted to help this lady,… I just wanted to take pictures of these floral mess moments… I am not exaggerating, it was really like being in flower gardens… not garden, gardens…. I write again on my mind. THREE.

*dolmuş is actually a shared taxi that seats maximum 8 passengers. They drive day and night on pre-determined routes, but without set stops. The idea is that each passenger only pays one eight of the fee a normal Istanbul taxi would charge for the same destination. Therefore, the minibus normally only sets off when all the seats are taken.

And I was walking to my hair-dresser’s street, I noticed a crowded in front of the saloon. Of course I couldn’t understand what was going on till to arrive there. Yes, it was an exciting day for them, because there was  a shooting advertisement film…  So many young people who are working for this film, and producer and his assistants…. I was going to go back but my dear hair-dresser, he saw me and smiled. He took me among the crowded film team.

Then, in there, I found myself watching them… When this advertisement begins to be shown on television, I can share here too. I wonder how it would be… Another note for today, I write on my mind. FOUR.

On the way to home, I walked this time… It was a long walking for me. But the weather was nice… at least it didn’t rain… I made some shops, as always… BUT something made me so glad, because I FOUND at the end, I was looking for something for one of my blogger friends, I will send her tomorrow… (oh, nia you should write her e-mail too! don’t forget)

And I didn’t pass one of my favorite shops, fabric store! I bought so nice fabrics… Later I will take their pictures. But what made me happy in there, they sell tulle too I mean in the past they didn’t sell for  only one meter or two… They were selling for windows… and they didn’t sell. Why I don’t know. But now, I can buy how long I wish… half meter or one… no matter. So I bought a wonderful tulle… Lilacs on white (not exactly white)… and another stop for “haberdasher” I am not sure for this word, but they sell buttons, zips, lace, ribbons, etc. everything for knitting, sewing, crocheting…. I love these shops… I wished to find in UK too… But I couldn’t see… maybe they weren’t on my ways… But in Milano, oh my God, I almost lost myself… And can you believe this, the day before my departure I found this store and it was so near to our house. All in my Italy days I looked for these kind of shops and I found it at the end of my days… One day I want to take pictures of my store in here… Write this too, nia on your mind FIVE.

When I was at home, I was hungry… A cup of tea and with a big simit** that was just taken from the oven, with cheese and tomatoes…

simit**ring-shaped bread covered with sesame seeds.

and I am here try to catch the day on this invisible world…

I hope it was a nice day and it’s been a nice day for you all too…

My mom.

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